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India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, whose gallery of heroes runs from Gandhi to Lenin, sanctioned nationwide celebrations on April 9, birthday of a Red-lining favorite: Actor-Baritone Paul Robeson, 59. Said Nehru of Robeson (who has been denied a U.S. passport since 1950) : "He has represented and suffered for a cause which should be dear to all of us-the cause of human dignity...
...Experiment has adopted the slogan "Expect the Unexpected" and some groups have lived up to it more than others. A new book about the Experiment, Passport to Friendship by William Peters, tells the stories of the group that was caught in Spain when civil war broke out there, and the groups in Europe when the Second World War began...
...Arkansas affair, I envy Americans only one thing: the opportunity to surrender an American passport...
Carried to an extreme, of course, the policy would set arbitrary itineraries for American travelers--shopping sprees in depressed areas, careful avoidance of neutralist or "immoral" nations. In its present phase the Dullesian doctrine entails only punitive measures--passport seizure--for those who defy passport restrictions...
Like a number of the unspoken rights Americans have continued to take for granted, the right to a passport has only recently been constricted. It has nearly reached the point where it permits only the pure in heart to travel to those countries where it permits only the pure in heart to travel to those countries where a liberal does of moral DDT has been applied...